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May 05

Branding Terror. The Logotypes and Iconography of Insurgent Groups and Terrorist Organizations

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Terrorist groups are no different from other organizations in their use of branding to promote their ideas and to distinguish themselves from groups that share similar aims. The branding they employ may contain complex systems of meaning and emotion; it conveys the group’s beliefs and capabilities. Branding Terror is the first comprehensive survey of the visual identity of the world’s major terrorist organizations, from al-Qaeda and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine to the Tamil Tigers continue

Mar 07

Book Review: Photography. A Cultural History (Fourth Edition)

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Mary Warner Marien discusses photography from a truly global viewpoint and looks at a wide-ranging collection of images through the lenses of art, science, travel, war, fashion, the mass media and individual photographers continue

Feb 24

Book Review. Show Time: The 50 Most Influential Exhibitions of Contemporary Art

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Tracing a history of the field through its most innovative shows, renowned curator Jens Hoffmann selects the fifty exhibitions that have most significantly shaped the practice of both artists and exhibition curators.

The book’s thematic sections focus on a huge variety of exhibitions, including those that have explored public space; reflected on globalization; engaged audiences in revolutionary ways; and brought into the gallery other disciplines such as theatre and architecture continue

Feb 05

Book review: Speculative Everything. Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming

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Speculative Everything offers a tour through an emerging cultural landscape of design ideas, ideals, and approaches. Dunne and Raby cite examples from their own design and teaching and from other projects from fine art, design, architecture, cinema, and photography. They also draw on futurology, political theory, the philosophy of technology, and literary fiction continue

Jan 22

Book review: Art and the Internet

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From the early 1990s the internet has had multiple roles in art, not least in defining several new genres of practitioners, from early networked art to new forms of interactive and participatory works, but also because it is the great aggregator of all art, past and present. Art and the Internet examines the legacy of the internet on art, and, importantly, illuminates how artists and institutions are using it and why continue

Dec 30

The Age of Collage. Contemporary Collage in Modern Art

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The Age of Collage is a striking documentation of today’s continued appetite for destructive construction. Showcasing outstanding current artwork and artists, the book also takes an insightful behind-the-scenes look at those working with this interdisciplinary and cross-media approach continue

Dec 17

Field_Notes: From Landscape to Laboratory

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The book contains 17 articles (in both English and Finnish) that report and meditate on the research, reflections and activities that took place during the scientists and artists’ stay in Kilpisjärvi, Lapland. The event was organised by Finnish Society of Bioart and offered one of the very few residences that allows people who engage with art&science to work and experiment directly in a natural environment and not exclusively in laboratories or galleries continue

Dec 08

A few of my favourite books in 2013

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I could have titled the post “Gift ideas for Christmas” but to be honest, these books are not christmassy in the traditional sense of the word. Neither is my blog, for that matter. The truth is that this is a list of books i’ve enjoyed but never found the time to review as they deserved continue

Nov 11

Out of Hand: Materializing the Postdigital

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The publication examines the increasingly important role of digital fabrication in contemporary art, design, and architecture practice from 2005 to the present. New levels of expression will demonstrate the reciprocal relationship between art and innovation as seen through the lens of emerging twenty first century aesthetics continue

Nov 03

Book review: Top Secret. Images from the Stasi Archives

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Formerly secret, highly official photographs show officers and employees putting on professional uniforms, gluing on fake beards, or signaling to each other with their hands. Today, the sight of them is almost ridiculous, although the laughter sticks in the viewer’s throat. This publication can be regarded as a visual processing of German history and an examination of current surveillance issues, yet it is extremely amusing at the same time continue

Oct 25

Book review: Walk the Line. The Art of Drawing

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In the art world, attitudes to drawing have changed. Drawing became a way of making a statement as an artist, of showing masterly skill – something that up to then had been most commonly associated with painting. After centuries in the shadow of its more illustrious fine art relatives, drawing started to be appreciated for its own sake, as an art discipline, an end in itself, an art form continue

Oct 08

Book review – Explore Everything: Place-Hacking the City

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Plotting expeditions from London, Paris, Berlin, Detroit, Chicago, Las Vegas and Los Angeles, Bradley L. Garrett has evaded urban security in order to experience the city in ways beyond the boundaries of conventional life. He calls it ‘place hacking’: the recoding of closed, secret, hidden and forgotten urban space to make them realms of opportunity continue

Sep 23

This Will Have Been: Art, Love, and Politics in the 1980s

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Art of the 1980s oscillated between radical and conservative, capricious and political, socially engaged and art historically aware continue

Sep 06

Abominable Science!: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids

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The book is as much about fantastical creatures as it is about pseudoscientists making radical claims about the world, sneering at evidence-based research and undermining the teaching of science in the process continue

Aug 27

Last Launch. Discovery, Endeavour, Atlantis

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Positioning automatically controlled cameras at strategic points around the launch pad–some as close as seven hundred feet–he recorded images of take-offs that capture the incredible power and transcendent beauty of the blast that sends the shuttle hurtling into space. Winters also takes us on a visual tour of the shuttle as a marvel of technology–from the crew spaces with their complex instrumentation, to the massive engines that propelled the shuttle, to the enormous vehicle assembly building where the shuttles were prepared for flight continue

Aug 19

Fully Booked. Ink on Paper. Design and Concepts for New Publications

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Digital media are disappointing for books. All books look the same on an iPad, for example. On a monitor, a book isn’t thick or thin, big or small. Features such as a Japanese binding, embossing, letterpress printing, or gilt edging are only possible in print. Consequently, it isn’t surprising that young, contemporary designers, publishers, typographers, illustrators, and editors are enthusiastically ringing in a new era for printed books.

Fully Booked: Ink on Paper is a collection of books and other printed products that celebrate the distinctiveness of design, materials, techniques, workmanship, and production methods–and push their limits continue

Aug 06

Book review: Anti-Media. Ephemera on Speculative Arts

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This book reflects on anti-copyright, porn, creative industries, post- punk, Arts and Crafts and constructivism, cooking as contemporary art, Oulipo, post-digitality, mezangelle, Anonymous and 4chan, Fluxus, amateurism, file sharing networks, pop culture, 17th century poetry, electroacoustic music, Neonazi communication guerilla, Rotterdam, romanticism, electronic literature, Mail Art, ontology, Super 8, Rosicrucianism and conceptual art continue

Jul 28

Book review – Sensible Politics. The Visual Culture of Nongovernmental Activism

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Drawing on the work of a diverse group of contributors, from art historians, anthropologists, and political theorists to artists, filmmakers, and architects, Sensible Politics situates aesthetic forms within broader activist contexts and networks of circulation and in so doing offers critical insight into the practices of mediation whereby the political becomes manifest continue

Jun 29

Book review – Introducing: Culture Identities, Design for Museums, Theaters and Cultural Institutions

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The book ‘features outstanding poster campaigns, publications, and cross-platform corporate design for international cultural institutions by both young designers, who are striving to prove themselves creatively, and established studios, who are experimenting with new forms of visual expression.’ continue

Jun 24

Book review: EP Vol. 1 – The Italian Avant-Garde: 1968-1976

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While emphasizing the multiple correspondences between collectives and groups like Arte Povera, Archizoom, Superstudio, and figures such as Ettore Sottsass and Alessandro Mendini, The Italian Avant-Garde: 1968-1976 also highlights previously overlooked spaces, works, and performances generated by Zoo, Gruppo 9999, and Cavart. Newly commissioned interviews and essays by historians and curators shed light on the era, while contemporary practitioners discuss its complex legacy continue

Hasta La Creative!

Branding Terror. The Logotypes and Iconography of Insurgent Groups and Terrorist Organizations

Book Review: Photography. A Cultural History (Fourth Edition)

Book Review. Show Time: The 50 Most Influential Exhibitions of Contemporary Art

Book review: Speculative Everything. Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming

Book review: Art and the Internet

The Age of Collage. Contemporary Collage in Modern Art

Field_Notes: From Landscape to Laboratory

A few of my favourite books in 2013

Out of Hand: Materializing the Postdigital

Book review: Top Secret. Images from the Stasi Archives

Book review: Walk the Line. The Art of Drawing

Book review – Explore Everything: Place-Hacking the City

This Will Have Been: Art, Love, and Politics in the 1980s

Abominable Science!: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids

Last Launch. Discovery, Endeavour, Atlantis

Fully Booked. Ink on Paper. Design and Concepts for New Publications

Book review: Anti-Media. Ephemera on Speculative Arts

Book review – Sensible Politics. The Visual Culture of Nongovernmental Activism

Book review – Introducing: Culture Identities, Design for Museums, Theaters and Cultural Institutions

Book review: EP Vol. 1 – The Italian Avant-Garde: 1968-1976

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